“Emotionally” beaten Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz returned to the country start your recovery process with an eye on what his return could be this season, with the Vuelta a España as his target for August.
Carchense cyclist he left the Tour de France right after the first stage due to injury produced 23 kilometers from the finish line.
“Richard Carapaz is emotionally affected, but he is already talking about new goals,” says the EF team
Carapaz managed to come back and finish the stage, but A medical examination determined that he suffered a “minor fracture of the left knee cap”states the medical part of the EF Education-EasyPost team.
After exiting the testCarapaz returned to Ecuador and he was already appreciated by José Reinhart, who progressed in the dialogue with machsports that the Olympic winner will be between four and six weeks in recovery.
The doctor commented that the cyclist will be re-examined this week. “It’s about an injury, a wound, when the skin breaks, it takes us eight days to heal, in the case of bones, we are talking about at least four to six weeksbut each person has a different way of reacting,” Reinhart said.
Richard Carapaz will not start the second stage of the Tour de France after an ultrasound scan revealed a small fracture in his left kneecap. He also needed three stitches to close a cut on the same knee. Richard suffered no other injuries in the crash and will return home to begin his… pic.twitter.com/M2tLI7X0lo
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Already in the recovery process,”in three weeks we will do a control study to see the evolution and if we see that the fracture is consolidated, we could advance the process to start training,” explained the doctor.
with new grades Other guidelines will be defined to achieve optimal recoverywhich expands the possibilities of Carapaz to return to competition, s the start of La Vuelta on August 26, a fair amount of time, which would have met even the deadlines pushed back by Reinhart.
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“To return it we may need to do a direct focused cryotherapy treatment, This allows us to reach temperatures of minus 15 to 20 degrees, which can speed up the recovery process. We’re going to use everything we can to get this back on its feet quickly and well,” Reinhart said.
54 more days before the start of the Spanish round, Carapaz will work against the clock, but “we have to wait for the organic response of the athletes”, said Reinhart, who said that “as professionals, we have to risk everything so that Richard can return to training and competition as soon as possible.” (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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